During my daughter’s first year at school, her teacher dismissed our concerns about her shaky pencil grip by saying something along the lines of: “Don’t worry, handwriting’s on its way out. By the time she’s in year 12, they’ll all be typing or voice-dictating their exams.”
Fast-forward 12 long school years and that now grown-up girl is in the throes of her final high-school exams. And of the many hours of essays and long and short answers, every single page, line, word and letter will be handwritten.
She writes fast but I find the result very hard to read and her pen grip is still, well, take your pick of elegant (her word) or awkward and inefficient (my words). Every single primary-school teacher undertook at the start of each year to fix her penmanship but it never changed.
